Rick Salutin | Authors | Toronto Star

Marty McFly, Justin Trudeau and the tyranny of timelines: Salutin

Fri Oct 23 2015

What if our politics isn’t as predestined as we tend to think?comments

Three memorable election moments — and one fear: Salutin

Fri Oct 16 2015

The events that have defined the run-up to Oct. 19 — and a bleak vision of how the months following might play out.comments

How Justin became Mr. Trudeau: Salutin

Fri Oct 09 2015

Justin Trudeau has withstood a pummeling that wasted the two previous Liberal leaders so badly that each broke down publicly. comments

Yes, let’s have an election on citizenship: Salutin

Fri Oct 02 2015

A country that gets so confused about its most basic right probably deserves to have an election about it.comments

Mulcair’s NDP parties like it’s 1994: Salutin

Thu Sep 24 2015

Thomas Mulcair has adopted the faux-left approach that got so many so-called progressives elected in the 1990s. But times have changed.comments

Cheering on your team, in politics and baseball: Salutin

Sun Sep 20 2015

Both politics and sports are symbolic. The elections experience can be as metaphorical as the pennant race in the AL East.comments

The attack dog factor in Harper politics: Salutin

Thu Sep 10 2015

The parade of Tory attack dogs has been long and luminous. Chris Alexander is just the latest.comments

A brief history of deficit hysteria: Salutin

Thu Sep 03 2015

When and how we lost our minds over debts and deficits. comments

Donald Trump helps us relive the 1930s

Thu Aug 27 2015

Give this to Donald Trump: he helps us picture how the anti-democratic, right wing, personality-driven movements of the 1930s came to power.comments

Time for an economics of the heart: Salutin

Thu Aug 20 2015

When Justin Trudeau said he wanted to grow the economy ‘from the heart outwards,’ he may have unwittingly hit upon something important.comments

Canada’s best columnist wasn’t Canadian: Salutin

Thu Aug 13 2015

‘Ray Guy changed things on his own, and he was just one writer with a column. Imagine if a whole population took on that responsibility.’comments

Send in the psychologists to study the psychologists: Salutin

Sat Aug 08 2015

At a conference in Toronto this week, the American Psychological Association must grapple with the complicity of some of its members in state-sanctioned torture.comments

The boutiquification of election debates: Salutin

Wed Aug 05 2015

The end of national televised leaders’ debates may be the coup de grace to our fading public politics.comments

The irritating way Olivia Chow took the plunge: Salutin

Thu Jul 30 2015

How can Chow frame herself as a champion of affordable child care, when hers was the party that killed that dream 10 years ago? comments

What Bill Cosby and his TV alter ego have in common: Salutin

Thu Jul 23 2015

Dr. Huxtable, who Cosby played on the hugely successful Cosby Show, was also a manipulative fraud and impostor. comments

Keeping score in history: who won this week?

Thu Jul 16 2015

Is the Greek debt relief deal a win or a loss for history? And what makes us certain that progress is a thing and that we can keep score of it?comments

Liberals and NDP are the same but don't know it: Salutin

Thu Jul 09 2015

They're not even very different from the Conservatives.comments

Greece and the inhuman economics of the EU: Salutin

Thu Jul 02 2015

There’s no way anyone normal can make human sense of the European Union's callous approach to Greece.comments

Barbaric cultural practices, then and now: Salutin

Sat Jun 27 2015

The story of the Canadian poet and bureaucrat responsible for the heyday of the residential schools holds lessons no one in authority seems to be learning comments

Was Rachel Dolezal onto something?: Salutin

Thu Jun 25 2015

The NAACP leader who lied about her racial background can teach us all something about freely choosing our identity. comments

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